The Shins: Wincing The Night Away on CD
Wincing The Night Away
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Label:
- Sub Pop
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2007
- Item number:
- 6637639
- UPC/EAN:
- 4024572288884
- Release date:
- 26.1.2007
To play music for a long time, you have to surprise the people that love you-while also surprising yourself. Recorded in singer / guitarist James Mercer's basement studio, Phil Ek's Seattle digs, and in Oregon City with veteran engineer Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2), Wincing the Night Away is The Shins' third full-length album. It's also the sound of a band growing up and out. Mercer's infectious, indelible melodic style is still at the core, and unfaltering. But anything can happen around it-and in this case, it does. While the vocals channel the spirit of Morrissey, "Sea Legs" pairs a loping hip-hop beat with lush melody and searing guitars. Elsewhere the band toys with tweaked-out, liquid piano steeped in kaleidoscopic strings ("Red Rabbit"); fractured synth samples ("Spilt Needles"); gauzy, arpeggiated keyboards cloak...
Reviews
M. Wopperer in Musikexpress 2/07: "Allem, das The Shins auf ihrem dritten Album tun, gebührt fraglos höchster Respekt. Die Brian Wilson'sche Melodieseligkeit wirkt immer noch wie Sonnenstrahlen aufs verschlafene Gemüt, James Mercer nistet sich mit seinem charakteristischen Gesang im Bewusstsein ein, als wäre er ein seit Kindertagen vertrauter Freund, die Leichtigkeit, mit der die Einfälle dahertänzeln, ist zauberhaft."Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Sleeping Lessons
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2 Australia
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3 Pam Berry
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4 Phantom Limb
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5 Sea Legs
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6 Red Rabbits
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7 Turn On Me
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8 Black Wave
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9 Spilt Needles
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10 Girl Sailor
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11 A Comet Appears
